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  1. AUSTIN (Austin Business Journal)
  2. I think they have different powers. Embassies have full ambassadors, and can do a lot more diplomatic and important paperwork things. Consulates are more like representative outposts of a particular country -- a notch above tourist information office. Anyone have a better clarification?
  3. Engineering students are no substitute for actual engineers, especially in situations where someone could be killed.
  4. Is it legit? I thought it was an "Adult" video store. (Since when did "adult" = "pornography?")
  5. Neither of the auto tunnels that were built beneath the Houston Ship Channel ever flooded (except for when the first one was flooded on purpose). Why would a subway?
  6. Crescent Sells Land to the City of Houston; Crescent Continues its Strategy of Selling Non-Core Assets FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 2004--Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (NYSE:CEI) today announced it has contracted to sell 5.3 acres of non-income producing land to the City of Houston. The land is adjacent to the 5.5 acres located in front of downtown's George R. Brown Convention Center that Crescent sold to the City at the end of 2002. This transaction allows the City to consolidate its land in order to develop an urban park of more than 13 acres. Jane Page, Executive Vice President of Asset Management and Leasing, commented, "As the largest landlord in Houston, Crescent shares the City's vision of developing a major new centerpiece park for all to enjoy. We believe that this type of gathering spot not only elevates the quality of life for those who live, work and play downtown, it also provides Houston with another way to compete with major metropolitan areas." The sale is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter, generating net proceeds to Crescent of approximately $23 million, which equates to a price of $100 per square foot. About the Company Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (NYSE:CEI) is one of the largest publicly held real estate investment trusts in the nation. Through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, Crescent owns and manages a portfolio of more than 70 premier office buildings totaling more than 29 million square feet primarily located in the Southwestern United States, with major concentrations in Dallas, Houston, Austin, Denver, Miami and Las Vegas. In addition, Crescent has investments in world-class resorts and spas and upscale residential developments. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.crescent.com. Merged topics
  7. Very cool. The Googlebot comes around here about once a day and reads everything. I remember at the old HAIF, most of the members I asked said they found out about this place through Google.
  8. A place I worked used to have a lot of above-ground cabling running across the campus (sort of like telephone or cable TV lines). These tanks would feed nitrogen into those lines to force the oxygen out. Without oxygen, the cables wouldn't rust inside.
  9. Saw a mention on TV today that Netflix is lowering its rate starting next month. Just a few bucks, but it's enough to get me on board.
  10. The design presumes four bloggers, but I think we can get away with three. I think we need at least that many to keep it fresh. Otherwise it looks like a couple of guys posting in their underpants from their mom's basement when they feel like it. The front page shown above would show the most recent entry from each blogger. Under the picture of the author, or maybe under the article, would be links to that author's other most recent entries, which would be sorted from the newest to the oldest. Clicking on the author's picture would bring up all blog entries by that author. Clicking on the article title or subbead would bring the viewer to the full blog entry with options to view other entries on similar topics by the other bloggers, or other entries by this author. The blog entry could feature supporting pictures, video, whatever. Clicking on the comment link would take the viewer to a special section of HAIF devoted to that particular blogger's entries. I think that's a good way to handle the comments, because then it weeds out the whackos. Most won't register to post of HAIF. I've seen a few blogs get filled with spam and profanity by lunatics. But everyone can rate the article positive or negative, so people will at least have that method of feedback if they want to remain anonymous.
  11. I whacked togther a quick sketch of what the front page might look like.
  12. Again, I'm eager to get to work on the project, but I'm going to hold off until later in the week until our ideas gel a little better. Here's another thought -- the best rantings, observations, blog entries, and comments could be put into a little PDF newsletter evey month or so and somehow distributed, or at least made available for download.
  13. I appreciate all of your comments. Good idea though -- let's kick it around for a week and see what other ideas pop up. I we decide to have the blogs in one place and the discussions of those entries in another, it only makes things easier for me, so I'm all for that.
  14. The more I think about it, the more I think it would be a neat idea. Obviously midtown_resident and dbigtex are interested in being official bloggers. Anyone else?
  15. Based on my (admittedly meager) coding abilities, I could put together a system where you, and a couple of other select Midtowners could log in to a web page, enter your thoughts, and they would be published in newest-first order with titles, topics, and summaries, etc... Then people could make comments on specific entries, which would have to be approved or edited by one of the selected Midtowners or myself before being made public (to avoid spam, profanity, etc...) If there were multiple Midtowners involved, each could have their own section, too. Can you think of any other features you would like?
  16. So, should it be completely isolated from the forum? Or should the blog link to an entry in the Midtown section of the forum where people can discuss it?
  17. Tell me what you have in mind, and maybe we can host it here.
  18. I've seen the Fox Sports thing at O'Hare airport. It's nothing special. Looks just like any other airport sports bar. As for the one in the Galleria -- that's an interesting idea. Give the men somewhere to spend the day while their wives shop. Perhaps this marks the beginning of a shift in the Galleria targeting from rich women and their little girls to families.
  19. When the Buffalo Bayou rises, maybe they'll let each of us take home some cash to dry it out. Yeah, that's the ticket!
  20. What Houston needs is a larger class of people who live downtown because it's "hip." Generally, TINKs who tend to have lots of extra money. The problem is, that downtown isn't hip enough yet to create this breed of real estate investor in Houston.
  21. Is there actually some progress on this? They've been promising it for almost a year now.
  22. Working for da Man. Trying to become da Man.
  23. Kind of off-topic, but Channel 2 is also blamed for ruining business for the bagel place in Midtown. A few years ago they did one of their knock-offs of Marvin Zindler's Rat and Roach Reports, and they misstated some facts and made it seem like the place had been shut down by the health inspector. It hadn't. What happened was the inspector wanted more information on whether it was sanitary for them to keep their dough on wood instead of metal trays. But the damage was done, and Channel 2 refused to correct the story. When I moved out of Midtown, they were thinking about closing for good because it hurt their business so much. Just one of a number of reasons to hate what they call "news" on Channel 2. "If it's happening in Houston, it's News 2 Us." If anyone wants to rant further, maybe we should start another thread.
  24. I find it so funny to see progress on this building. Especially after I got into an argument with a Harris County employee about the building. He insisted it wasn't going to be built. That there was no plan to build it. That it wasn't happening. For some reason he was in total denial. This was the same employee who came up with all of the financial statistics the anti-rail movement used before the referendum. Dumbass.
  25. If it's going to happen, the city's got to work on its infrastructure. Streets, roads, water, and other things need to be seriously upgraded to handle that many people.
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